In the previous videos, we have looked at a couple of different filters…for removing noise.…In this one, we are going to take a look at the Smart Blur filter. And in…these chapters, I'm intentionally going up the degree of sophistication as we move forward,…so now we are getting to a little bit better filter than we saw before.…Each one exerts a little bit more specific control over the reduction of noise…within an image while maintaining the edges of contrasted areas.…So once again let's go and open up our image in chapter06, and we definitely…want to move this into 100%, so we can see all the detail.…

This kind of manipulation is something you would want to see at 100%.…If you watch it at reduced magnification, you won't get a true sense of what's happening.…So let's go up to the Filter menu and go to Blur > Smart Blur.…Now the Smart Blur filter does not have a preview on the actual image.…We have to see what's happening within the window of the filter itself.…As I have done before, the settings that we had earlier in our filters that…

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8/12/2011

Learn to think like a painter and render images from photographs that look like they were created with oils or acrylics, using the latest digital artist's tools. Author and artist John Derry introduces the process of interpreting a photograph into a painted work of art. He begins by explaining his system of visual vocabularies, which describe how to replace the elements of an image with expressive painterly qualities, and also shares the custom brush sets and actions he uses to achieve these results in Photoshop. The course also covers working with filters, layers, effects, and more to add further detail and texture.